Skopje is the capital city of the
Republic of Macedonia.
It has approx. 650,000 inhabitants
(2000 estimate) and is located on
the upper Vardar river.
Skopje is located at 42°0'N 21°26'E.
Skopje is the political, economic,
and cultural centre of the
modern Republic of Macedonia.
It is a major centre for
the metal-processing, chemical,
timber, textile, leather,
and printing industries.
Industrial development of the
city has been accompanied by an
intensive development
of the trade and banking sectors,
as well as an emphasis
on the fields of culture and sport.

Buildings
North of the city there is a Roman aqueduct.
Medieval monasteries in the vicinity include
that of Nerezi (1164), with rather realistic
12th-century frescoes, similar to the
Giotto's pictures, some 140 years latter.
There are notable buildings from the Turkish
rule such as the Kursumli Han (medieval
Turkish inn) and several mosques.
One of the bridges connecting both side
of Vardar River is the stone bridge built
during the time of Stefan Dusan.

Hui Chin and I spent a short while in Skopje during
our trip around the Balkan in 2005.

We did enjoy ourselves.

Unfortunately I do not have all my photos of this place left,
although we had four cameras between us and we have taken
many, many photos wherever we went, two of my most favoured
cameras: a JVC video camera I favoured because of the quality of
photos it produced, ease of use and its excellent compression rate,
and my Panasonic camera for its miniature size. Both
had large, 512 MB SD Cards and many thousands of photos
on them were stolen from my bag, later into our trip, by some
'lowlife', with my wallet and money.
You'll see this message a few times, because my JVC and
Panasonic cameras' cards had many-many pictures stored.